Refrigerator



Aug. 4. 192s. 1,548,760

A J. R. SHOOK REFRIGERTOR Filed'Jan. 31. 1925 Patented Aug. 4, 1925.

' .*ra'ivins R.` snoon, orsUNjBuRs'r, NORTH CAROLINA.

REFRIGERATOR.

Application led January 31, 1925. Serial No. 6,043.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

yBe it known that I, JAMES R. SHooK,

l al citizen of the United States, residing at Sunburst,` in the countyof Haywood and.

Stateof North Carolina, have invented certain newand useful Improvementsin Refrigerators, of which the following is a specificationreferencebeinghad to the accompanying drawings. i A

Thisinvention relates to refrigerators and more particularlyy toamultiple compart- -l ment refrigerator,

An important object of the invention is to provide in a device of thischaractera construction such that.A eachV compartment is sealed from theremaining compartments and at the same time a circulation vof air withinall storage compartments is maintained and this air cooled from the icestorage compartment.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of thischaracter of such construction that the contents of the compartments areat all times readily accessible without disturbing` or opening any ofthe remaining` compartment-s.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of thischaracter which is rotatable so that a selected compartment may bebrought adjacent the person of the operator and wherein the pivot aboutwhich the structure rotates comprises a housing for the drain pipe fordischarging water from the ice compartment.

These and other objects I attain by the construction shown in theaccompanying drawings, wherein for the purpose of illustration is showna preferred embodiment of my invention and wherein Figure 1 is ahorizontal sectional View through arefrigerator constructed inaccordance with my invention; and

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view therethrough.

Referring now more particularly tov the drawings, the numeral 10indicates a base supported from legs 11 and having centrally a Siphondrain outlet 12 from which eX- tends upwardly a vertical pipe 13. Thisdrain pipe 13 forms an axis about which the main refrigerator structure14 rotates and this structure4 is provided upon its under surface atspaced points with casters 15 engaging the upper surface of the base.About the drain pipe at the bottom 17 of the refrigerator and at thebase 10 bearings 13Il are provided coacting with bearings formed uponopposite ends of a tube 13b for the reception of anti-friction .elementssuch as balls. This tube, in addition to providing a center bearing, andsupport for the refrigerator,fserves as an insulation for the drain Themain refrigerator construction includes a base frame 16 in the presentinstance-shown as octagonal although it may be in any desired shape.supported a bottom 17 and sides 18'.`v The bottom and sides each consistof spaced plates19 and 2O having arranged therebetween an insulatingmedium suchas cork,

indicated at 21. Extending upwardly from the bottoni at the centerthereof are vertical walls 22 of a central or ice compartment 23, thewalls of this compartment being spaced from the side walls 14 and beingconnected therefrom by radially directed partition walls 24 subdividingthe space between the outer wall and compartment wall 23 into aplurality of storage compartments 25. The upper surface of the walls 22and the upper surface of the side wall have frames 26, 27 for thereception of a cover 28 for the central compartment 23 and covers 29 fort-he outer compartments 25. These covers are each of a double wallconstruction, as illustrated, and have arranged between the wallsthereof an insulating medium, as indicated at 30.

Vertically arranged within the compartment 23 is a plurality of pipes orconduits 31, each having their Lipper and lower ends directed throughthe walls 23 and opening into the compartments 25. Thesepipesaccordingly have the major portions of their bodies arranged within thecompartment 23 which is adapted for the reception of ice and these bodyportions will become chilled with the result that air contained thereinwill pass downwardly and out at the lower end of the pipes beingreplaced by warm air drawn from the upper portions of the compartments25 so that a continuous circulation of air is had through the conduits31. This air is drawn from a given compartment 25 and returned to thesame compartment so that the air from one compartment is not mingledwith the air of the remaining compartments. This permits one compartmentto be employed for the storage of articles which are readily taintedsuch as butter, milk and the like and the neXt coni- From this frame is`partment to be employed for the storage of materialswhich Would taintthese articles Without any danger of such tainting. Furthermore, theopening of thedoor to anyh one of the compartments does not materiallyaffect the temperature of adjacent compartments due to the fact that theair of these compartments is not disturbed in any'vvay. In order thatthe chill of `the several compertinents may be rapidly and readilydistributed, the 'partitions 22 and24 are preferably metal partitionsand have no in- 'sulating medium associated therewith.

'1l VIn a refrigerator, a refrigerant compartment, a plurality ofstorage compart` ments grouped about the refrigerant compartrnent,individual closures for;` `each of said compartments, andmeans forestablishing circulation of the air of each of said storage compartmentsindependently ofthe remaining compartments, including substantiallyvertically extending conduits each opening at their upper and lower endsinto the storagewcompartments and each arranged Within the refrigerantcompartment.

2. In a refrigerator, a rotatable structure including a centralrefrigerant compartment and a cover therefor, a `lurality of'storagecompartments grouped alhout the refrigerant `compartmentrand each havingits inner wall formed by the outer wall of the refrigerant compartment,a pluralit y of 40 conduits extending `through the inner wa l of eachstorage compartment and communicating with the storage compartments attheir upper and lower ends,said conduits'being `ar ranged Within saidrefrigerant compartment. InV testimony `whereof I hereunto affix mysignature.

. y JAMES R. sHooK;

